| ambiance |
94.73999977111816% positive |
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Service, food and atmosphere was amazing! ”
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Romantic ambience, excellent seafood, world class servce and a wonderful wine list. ”
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The ambience is beautiful without being overwhelming. ”
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would maybe recommend this place for a power lunch (much like Aquavit), but for dinner there are so many places in NYC that leave this place miles behind in cuisine, decor and service. ”
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Le bernadin has wonderful service and very nice ambiance. ”
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The service staff was impeccable, wonderful cutlerly and china, the ambiance is pretty but not original. ”
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The ambience is rather formal, but service was great. ”
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Basically it was the finest of our lives, we loved the food, atmosphere, and service. ”
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The atmosphere and food is fantastic. ”
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Service was excellent, atmosphere was not stuffy and they were very receptive towards my young nephew. ”
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Wonderful food, outstanding service and incredible atmosphere. ”
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The restaurant is beautiful but not opulent in an imposing sort of way, the decor is actually quite modern and the combination of the teak-wood and the soothing blue tones of the carpeting and walls is very pleasing to the eye. ”
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The reviews weren't kidding when they said the service, food, and ambience is great at this restaurant. ”
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Any establishment can separately make great food, give great service, or have great decor, but the top tiered should excel at all of the above and sorry, LB only succeeds on one (great food). ”
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It's just that I've found equally delicious food at various cozy, little places in the city, for as low as $12 a head. ”
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The decor was good, so was the location. ”
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Phenomenal, The most outstanding ambience, service and food! ”
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The service was snooty, we sat in a terrible location, and the food was underwhelming. ”
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Upscale, romantic, impecable service and food. ”
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| dessert |
88.24000358581543% positive |
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It was the chocolate peanut that was great. ”
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highly recommend the octopus, crab cake, and conch. ”
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The captain was gracious enough to let me skip the dessert and order an extra appetizer since I can't have any sugar. ”
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aside from an inadvertent gob of icing on the side of my dessert plate the service was flawless, if not notable. ”
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The desserts are amazing and a must. ”
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The desserts were very good as well, which is yet another thing that makes Le Bernardin stand out from the seafood crowd. ”
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The desserts were quite tasty and original, though not out of this world. ”
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Their dessert offerings are impressive as well, the panna cotta , chocolate - peanut & cakes are melt in your mouth. ”
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The pastry chef should go back to the basics, keeping the food clean the flavors distinct and remembering that deserts should be harmonious and cause people to sigh. ”
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did not touch dessert as the combinations of flavors were appalling and completely storyless. ”
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Everything from the salmon dip at the bar (while waiting for our table) to the dessert was perfect. ”
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The desserts were wonderful ”
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had the chocolate peanut dessert which was SO good. ”
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The warm chocolate tart is also the best dessert I have ever had and I have had a lot of desserts! ”
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The desserts are disappointing. ”
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The desserts were especially wonderful, and I am not normally "a dessert guy. ”
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I, with an awfully severe sweet tooth can honestly say that this restaurant has the most deLIGHTful desserts I have ever had. ”
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| drinks |
82.1399974822998% positive |
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The service was amazingly attentive without being 'in your face' and the wine service couldn't have been better or more delicious. ”
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We opted for the Chef's tasting menu, and I elected to get the paired wines, which was very astute of me, considering the stunning variety of the courses. ”
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We both got the Chef's tasting menu with wine pairing and cocktails and would have gone back otherwise, but it left a bad taste with the poor inital impression. ”
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Great wine list. ”
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To say we both enjoyed the tasting menu with wine accompaniments would be an understatement. ”
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The wine pairings were, for my personal taste, superb. ”
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The assistant sommelier was quite knowledgeable about wine. ”
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We were made to wait at the bar for four hrs eventually we ate there , sitting on an uncomfortable chair ”
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Went recently for the chef tasting menu with wines, the wines chosen were quite good (even a Hirtbzerger Guner Veltiner, a nice red burgundy and a good 2000 German, among other things). ”
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The thing I disliked about this place the most is the snooty service we got, especially from the sommelier who thought he was too good to engage in a little conversation about great wines, isn't that his job? ”
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If you can afford it, and the expense is enormous for most people, I highly recommend the Chef's Tasting Menu with the recommended paired wines, unless you are such an accomplished and experienced oenophile that you feel challenged to attempt the pairing ”
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Romantic ambience, excellent seafood, world class servce and a wonderful wine list. ”
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Everything from the salmon dip at the bar (while waiting for our table) to the dessert was perfect. ”
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With its can't-miss wine list and cordial, attentive staff, Le Bernardin makes for a lovely meal. ”
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| food quality |
88.78000259399414% positive |
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Barely Touched: Warm Peekytoe-Maryland Lump "Crab Cake"; Shaved Cauliflower; Dijon Mustard Emulsion - very tasty but I felt the Dijon was a little too overpowering for me. ”
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Buying a beautiful piece of fresh salmon and preparing it at home is much more satisfying. ”
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The white tuna was decent and the Kobe beef was very good. ”
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hate seafood and only made reservations here for my wife, but I was very pleased with the entire experience. ”
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great seafood served in a special way. ”
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Fluke tasting, the kanpachi with wasabi fish roe, soft shell crab with a spicy pumpkin broth, sea urchin (like butter/foie gras), skate pork, monkfish with a chorizo emulsion -- just increadibly creative and tasty combos. ”
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love seafood and fish and could not decide. ”
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think this is the best meal I've ever had in my life. ”
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The desserts were very good as well, which is yet another thing that makes Le Bernardin stand out from the seafood crowd. ”
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The desserts were quite tasty and original, though not out of this world. ”
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This time, the service was terrific and the food was a triumph. ”
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Wonderful dining experience with classic French cuisine and great seafood. ”
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Stale food and worse service- a NO NO ”
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Maybe it's me but I didn't like the port and tamarind reduction at all, it completely threw off the entire taste of the dish. ”
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great food ”
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all first class retaurants with courteous service and fresh food. ”
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The chef has great control on cooking the fish. ”
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Everything from the salmon dip at the bar (while waiting for our table) to the dessert was perfect. ”
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Amazing food and impeccable service. ”
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Lives up to its billing as the best seafood restaurant in the world ”
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My red snapper was so fresh you'd have thought there was a tank in the back where they swam just before serving. ”
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The food was fresh and great, especially the conch, crab and the black bass. ”
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Great food, big check, sluggish pace ”
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From the starting amuse of poached lobster with coconut/lobster/ginger foam, through the progressive tasting of fluke ceviche, to the pan-fried skate and crispy pork belly with butternut squash mousseline, the quality of the ingredients was impeccable wit ”
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Good food, good service, and if you go with good company what more can you ask for? ”
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The reviews weren't kidding when they said the service, food, and ambience is great at this restaurant. ”
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The food was disappointing. ”
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In general I would splurge on great tasting food no matter the quantity, but this was nothing special, my boyfriend even mentioned that he'd trade this octopus for the one I make at home any day. ”
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This is NOT the best fish restaurant in America let alone NYC. ”
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know why it is thought to be the best fish restaurant in the city. ”
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It truly serves the best seafood in town. ”
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The pounded, raw tuna was so fresh and delicious that it only left me wanting more. ”
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The food was very very good, but not spectacular, the way a three-star Michelin guide restaurant would knock you over. ”
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The pastry chef should go back to the basics, keeping the food clean the flavors distinct and remembering that deserts should be harmonious and cause people to sigh. ”
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The service was outstanding, the food was too. ”
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The service is wonderful and the dishes are prepared each with its own identity. ”
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Very good seafood restaurant. ”
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Service is fantastic and the food is great as well. ”
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Each dish was absolutely perfect. ”
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Excellent food, outstanding service ”
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Everything we tried melted in our mouths, which is why I guess it is considered one of the best seafood restaurants in the world. ”
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The service is outstanding and all of the dishes are light and flavorful. ”
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Their prix fixe is one of the best deals in town, I'd say, if you like refined French cuisine. ”
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We had an extremely enjoyable meal with great service. ”
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honestly felt as if I underpaid for an exquisite meal. ”
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The service was snooty, we sat in a terrible location, and the food was underwhelming. ”
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The service was impeccable, and it deserves its reputation for being the best fish restaurant in NYC. ”
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Also, the food is delicious--I'm not a very big seafood fan, but I still enjoyed it. ”
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Upscale, romantic, impecable service and food. ”
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The serving size is acceptable so that you don't go into food coma. ”
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The service was amazingly attentive without being 'in your face' and the wine service couldn't have been better or more delicious. ”
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My advice is not to go here if you don't truly appreciate fine food, or if your favorite restaurants are steakhouses and pasta joints. ”
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must if you like great seafood and fine dining ”
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This is the best seafood & french restaurant I've been to in nyc so far. ”
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The fish was very fresh and tasted amazing. ”
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(btw, the kobe beef in the surf and turf entree was tasty but minuscule!) ”
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Service was attentive, a bit stiff, and never intrusive (as in they don't drop the food and then brag about every ingrediant in the dish) ”
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highly recommend the octopus, crab cake, and conch. ”
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The room was beautiful, the food was perfect, the service was exemplary. ”
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The skate wasn't bad, but the sauce completely overwhelmed the natural taste of the fish. ”
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The atmosphere and food is fantastic. ”
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Le Bernardin is still the best seafood restaurant in the world. ”
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truly amazing experience for fish lovers. ”
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Wonderful food, outstanding service and incredible atmosphere. ”
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We all enjoyed our food. ”
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This is undoubtedly the most delicious food that I have ever had in my life. ”
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Most people reviewing the place will also try to appeal to your sense of elitism - oh, if you truly enjoy fine food you will love this place, blah blah. ”
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The food was delicious, actually. ”
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Each dish we had was excellent and some were even better than that. ”
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took my father for his 70th birthday (he loves the place) and we had a great meal. ”
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Service, food and atmosphere was amazing! ”
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With its can't-miss wine list and cordial, attentive staff, Le Bernardin makes for a lovely meal. ”
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OK the food was not bad but they barely gave you any. ”
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My girlfriend and I had the standard four course meal -- and every dish was fabulous -- fresh, fragrant, full of interesting flavor combos around the world. ”
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It's just that I've found equally delicious food at various cozy, little places in the city, for as low as $12 a head. ”
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as for the food, i personally preferred the dishes that were more classical french than japanese inspired, since i'm japanese and i know good flavorful bonito broth (after all, i cook with it everyday). ”
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Kumamoto oysters were the best I've ever had, and the Kobe beef was to die for. ”
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Romantic ambience, excellent seafood, world class servce and a wonderful wine list. ”
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If you are into good food that is overpriced, this is great. ”
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would maybe recommend this place for a power lunch (much like Aquavit), but for dinner there are so many places in NYC that leave this place miles behind in cuisine, decor and service. ”
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wish I can afford to eat here often, the dishes served were heavenly, portion sizes were perfect too make you full but not stuffed! ”
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The food was wonderful. ”
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Every dish is unique and sublime. ”
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This is a damn good restaurant, probably the best seafood restaurant in New York (excluding super-high-end sushi places). ”
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Basically it was the finest of our lives, we loved the food, atmosphere, and service. ”
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Excellent food, great service ”
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Phenomenal, The most outstanding ambience, service and food! ”
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have been going to Daniel, Jean Georges, Gramercy Tavern, Per Se, Babbo, the Modern, since they opened, I love great food, and I have an innate curiosity for great food and new chefs. ”
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You do not go to Le Bernardin for just a dinner, you go for great food and the experience. ”
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Any establishment can separately make great food, give great service, or have great decor, but the top tiered should excel at all of the above and sorry, LB only succeeds on one (great food). ”
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Average unimaginative food poor quality service ”
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Our group ordered many things, from lamb chops, to steak, to red snapper and everything was so delicious. ”
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this is not to say the food wasn't good but the mini me porportions sized food was a bit too harsh for the wallet. ”
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The food was unimaginative, the combinations were unchallenging, nothing spectacular, from what has been considered one of the best restaurants in the city. ”
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We had a celebratory lunch here and every dish was well-prepared, nicely presented and the perfect size. ”
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the meal itself was not horrible, I think I may have just ordered the wrong thing. ”
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The best I had during my meal was the raw tuna - great flavor and large portion for an appetizer. ”
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love seafood and here I just didnt get much of if. ”
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The dishes are creative and the kitchen obviously understands seafood because nothing was over-salted and over-sauced. ”
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The seafood was stale. ”
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When I approached the host at the end of our meal to tell him about the lousy experience I had just paid a boat load of money for, he seemed to want to argue with me. ”
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| menu variety |
85.71000099182129% positive |
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We order the tasting menu and I can say it was one of the best meals of my life. ”
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recommend the prix fixe menu of 4 courses. ”
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Went recently for the chef tasting menu with wines, the wines chosen were quite good (even a Hirtbzerger Guner Veltiner, a nice red burgundy and a good 2000 German, among other things). ”
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To say we both enjoyed the tasting menu with wine accompaniments would be an understatement. ”
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Suffice it to say that my wife and I had the tasting menu with a very nice white Burgundy that the sommelier recommended, and experienced truly impeccable service. ”
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We both got the Chef's tasting menu with wine pairing and cocktails and would have gone back otherwise, but it left a bad taste with the poor inital impression. ”
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We opted for the Chef's tasting menu, and I elected to get the paired wines, which was very astute of me, considering the stunning variety of the courses. ”
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| overall |
100.0% positive |
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This is NOT the best fish restaurant in America let alone NYC. ”
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Definitely the best restaurant we have been in NY. ”
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If you're thinking of coming here for a special occasion, go to your favorite restaurant instead. ”
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This is the best seafood & french restaurant I've been to in nyc so far. ”
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The reviews weren't kidding when they said the service, food, and ambience is great at this restaurant. ”
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It's a great place to go and it's worth every penny, I would definetely recommend it! ”
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Le Bernardin is still the best seafood restaurant in the world. ”
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After my superb hair experience at Rodolfo Valentin Salon, my husband treated me to a dinner to this my favorite restaurant. ”
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Lives up to its billing as the best seafood restaurant in the world ”
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This is a damn good restaurant, probably the best seafood restaurant in New York (excluding super-high-end sushi places). ”
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This is by far my favorite restaurant of all New York City. ”
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The service was impeccable, and it deserves its reputation for being the best fish restaurant in NYC. ”
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This is my favorite restaurant in NY and every time we return, it reminds me why. ”
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know why it is thought to be the best fish restaurant in the city. ”
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| return potential |
100.0% positive |
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This is my favorite restaurant in NY and every time we return, it reminds me why. ”
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The staff are fantastic, we will absolutely be back for more. ”
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The pastry chef should go back to the basics, keeping the food clean the flavors distinct and remembering that deserts should be harmonious and cause people to sigh. ”
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| service |
87.7400016784668% positive |
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Le bernadin has wonderful service and very nice ambiance. ”
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The service is fairly attentive, but not as good as it this restaurant's reputation would suggest. ”
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The ambience is rather formal, but service was great. ”
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While service was friendly and attentive, it was otherwise not noteworthy. ”
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Basically it was the finest of our lives, we loved the food, atmosphere, and service. ”
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The service is outstanding and all of the dishes are light and flavorful. ”
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We were later changed to a table further away from the kitchen, and the service thereafter was great. ”
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Suffice it to say that my wife and I had the tasting menu with a very nice white Burgundy that the sommelier recommended, and experienced truly impeccable service. ”
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Avoid weekends perhaps, but service will almost always be great, rare aberration notwithstanding. ”
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With its can't-miss wine list and cordial, attentive staff, Le Bernardin makes for a lovely meal. ”
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Service was attentive, a bit stiff, and never intrusive (as in they don't drop the food and then brag about every ingrediant in the dish) ”
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We had an extremely enjoyable meal with great service. ”
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would maybe recommend this place for a power lunch (much like Aquavit), but for dinner there are so many places in NYC that leave this place miles behind in cuisine, decor and service. ”
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Good food, good service, and if you go with good company what more can you ask for? ”
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The staff from the hostess, wait staff, sommelier and maitre d' were friendly and engaging. ”
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The pastry chef should go back to the basics, keeping the food clean the flavors distinct and remembering that deserts should be harmonious and cause people to sigh. ”
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The service staff was impeccable, wonderful cutlerly and china, the ambiance is pretty but not original. ”
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The service was good. ”
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Most people reviewing the place will also try to appeal to your sense of elitism - oh, if you truly enjoy fine food you will love this place, blah blah. ”
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The service was amazingly attentive without being 'in your face' and the wine service couldn't have been better or more delicious. ”
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The staff are fantastic, we will absolutely be back for more. ”
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The service is wonderful and the dishes are prepared each with its own identity. ”
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Excellent food, outstanding service ”
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The waiters were attentive without making us feel too much, and they were very friendly. ”
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If you can afford it, and the expense is enormous for most people, I highly recommend the Chef's Tasting Menu with the recommended paired wines, unless you are such an accomplished and experienced oenophile that you feel challenged to attempt the pairing ”
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Phenomenal, The most outstanding ambience, service and food! ”
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The room was beautiful, the food was perfect, the service was exemplary. ”
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The service was impeccable, and it deserves its reputation for being the best fish restaurant in NYC. ”
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The service is outstanding! ”
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This time, the service was terrific and the food was a triumph. ”
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The staff was rude. ”
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Any establishment can separately make great food, give great service, or have great decor, but the top tiered should excel at all of the above and sorry, LB only succeeds on one (great food). ”
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The customer service is excellent except that they tend to get too attentive. ”
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The service was outstanding, the food was too. ”
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Stale food and worse service- a NO NO ”
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The poor service started before even arriving. ”
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the waiters/servers/sommelier were excellent. ”
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aside from an inadvertent gob of icing on the side of my dessert plate the service was flawless, if not notable. ”
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Excellent food, great service ”
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The thing I disliked about this place the most is the snooty service we got, especially from the sommelier who thought he was too good to engage in a little conversation about great wines, isn't that his job? ”
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felt the service was the most professional I've had in this country, and when considering that I've dined at places like Michael Mina, Babbo, Vong, Eleven Madison Park, and Cyrus, to name but a few, that is no small accomplishment. ”
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The service here is the best i have experienced anywhere in the U.S. ”
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Upscale, romantic, impecable service and food. ”
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Amazing food and impeccable service. ”
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The only complaint I had was that the service was pretty slow. ”
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The service is impeccable but not the least bit snooty. ”
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The service was impeccable. ”
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The only thing that was 3 stars was the service - impeccable. ”
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The service was snooty, we sat in a terrible location, and the food was underwhelming. ”
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Wonderful food, outstanding service and incredible atmosphere. ”
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Average unimaginative food poor quality service ”
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all first class retaurants with courteous service and fresh food. ”
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The reviews weren't kidding when they said the service, food, and ambience is great at this restaurant. ”
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| value |
58.33000183105469% positive |
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If you are into good food that is overpriced, this is great. ”
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When I approached the host at the end of our meal to tell him about the lousy experience I had just paid a boat load of money for, he seemed to want to argue with me. ”
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Portions are tiny (as they are in many overpriced restaurants), and taste ok, but the main course is an appetizer. ”
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Their prix fixe is one of the best deals in town, I'd say, if you like refined French cuisine. ”
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Great value for lunch ! ”
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About the portions: if you were to order only one course, then yes, you will probably complain about the small portions and leave hungry. ”
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ordering piecemeal is for tourists and one-offs, so it's bad value. ”
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The main course was poached halibut -- the very best portions of the filet were served, in 2 identically sized pieces. ”
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LB is the best of NYC's top tier, but you must order the tastings to reap full value. ”
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So, the bottom line is that we enjoyed the dinner here, thought the price was a bit high for what we got, and perhaps were expecting something more magical. ”
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It is a very expensive restaurant and that is the only reason why I wn't be able to frequent it. ”
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It's a great place to go and it's worth every penny, I would definetely recommend it! ”
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| wait time |
0.0% positive |
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The only complaint I had was that the service was pretty slow. ”
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